Matt Hester talks with Patrick Hevesi about Branch Office. They discuss the five main scenarios all branch offices face, and how Microsoft’s Branch Office offerings address these challenges.
Windows Server Virtualizaion, Componentization and Security are all discussed.
Eric…

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 is now available for download.
This popular Windows Vista deployment tool offers IT professionals a quick way to assess their existing computers’ readiness for Windows Vista in terms of hardware and device compatibility.
The new version provides selective…

Blain Barton continues his conversation on Group Policy, discussing how Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management increases administrators’ control over managing Group Policy objects.
He speaks with Kevin Sullivan, a Lead Program Manager, and Winni Verhoef, a Senior Product Manager focused on…

This geekSpeak, hosted by Microsoft Developer Evangelists Glen Gordon
and G. Andrew Duthie, features Ron Rohlfs, practice area lead with InterKnowlogy.
Ron spends a lot of time architecting Sharepoint solutions for customers. In this geekSpeak, Ron shares some insight into one approach to…

Windows PowerShell is included as part of Windows Server 2008. Join Dmitry Sotnikov from Quest Software and Scott Ottaway from Microsoft as they demonstrate the use of Windows PowerShell to manage new features in Server 2008 including new Active Directory
features and Read-Only Domain Controllers.…

This screencast shows in detail the actions performed by the script in charge of setting up the structure needed to support
LitwareHR's application.
This is what we call "Datacenter Provisioning" and creates databases in SQL server, users and roles structures in the ADAM and websites in…

This screencast shows how AppFabric Access Control (AC) can be used to provide identity
federation, trust delegation, service authorization and integration with Active
Directory Federation Services (ADFS), to control access to services based on
Windows Azure.
In the demo, Fabrikam Jets…

At the 2009 Active Directory
Windows Protocols Plugfest Nathan Muggli, Senior Program Manager, Michiko Short, and Suneel Parthasarathy, Lead Developer, presented an overview of the changes to the protocol documentation that correspond to Windows 7 and Windows
Server 2008 R2.